Pails, wood, manufacturing · Illinois

CALco - Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CALco - Chicago runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pails, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

CALco - Chicago: 5.4 TCR = 162% of Pails, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CALco - Chicago safety composite

CALco - Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

CALco - Chicago: 0.0 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2021

CALco - Chicago's TCR rose 10.7 from 0.0 in 2020 to 10.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 162% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #17/42
  • PHOTO Recycled Tooele (USVS)
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Recycled Tooele (USVS) (0.0 TCR gap)

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CALco - Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows CALco - Chicago averages 5.4 TCR (162% of the Pails, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

CALco - Chicago TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=10.7 · BLS 3.3

Where CALco - Chicago falls in its industry

952 Pails, wood, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 42 Pails, wood, manufacturing employers in Illinois.

CALco - Chicago (31 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate CALco - Chicago
CALco - Chicago (31 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

CALco - Chicago has fewer employees than the Pails, wood, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2021 10.7 5.3 4 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · IL · Chicago

952 Pails, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Recycled Tooele (USVS) 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Recycled Burlington (UT2V) 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blue River Wood Products (Southern IN Mill) 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paltech Enterprises of Arkansas Inc. 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bear Creek Genetics, LLC. 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Highland 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Maschhoffs, LLC - Pittsfield Office 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Beardstown 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Ben Mynatt Family of Dealerships 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Knox County Sheriff 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 42351b - Wyandanch Dc 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 4818-SOGR 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cedar Cove Assisted Living 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Colonnade of Carrollwood 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Portland Fasteners 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE MVRBC - Cedar Rapids West 31 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.